From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: packages versioning
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:06:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE25C22.5030605@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE25A0B.7070309@googlemail.com>
On 2011-12-09 11:57, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>
>> The creation of the filesystem image is driven by a number of components. Basically it works like this:
> Thanks a lot for that - a good insight into the workings of oe and bitbake. I was hoping there would be an easier way to configure/change this to what I want, but I see that it is
> much more complex than I thought initially.
>
>> I have a spreadsheet (OpenOffice 17k, or Excel 81k) that lists all of the current breakdowns. If you are interested send me an email off list.
> I am interested (excel would be nice, thanks), but don't know your email address (all I get when responding to 'all' is the mailing list email address) - if you know mine, you
> could send me that and I'll have a look.
>
> I take it there isn't an easy way to see the hierarchy of all packages/dependencies involved in a particular image, is it (your spreadsheet may be good, but I suppose it is static
> and reflects just a current snapshot of a given packages/dependencies and that might change)?
>
> If all else fails, I might use ipkg on the target system to uninstall the packages I don't need and install new ones - not ideal by any means, but this is what I'll do only as a
> last resort, if all else fails. Thanks again for the thorough response!
You can also use 'bitbake -u hob' which will let you interactively
build and modify images.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-09 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 2:57 packages versioning Mr Dash Four
2011-12-09 3:17 ` Chris Larson
2011-12-09 12:59 ` Mr Dash Four
2011-12-09 13:35 ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-09 15:59 ` Mr Dash Four
2011-12-09 16:15 ` Mark Hatle
2011-12-09 18:57 ` Mr Dash Four
2011-12-09 19:06 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2011-12-09 20:14 ` Mark Hatle
2011-12-09 20:46 ` Mr Dash Four
2011-12-10 18:29 ` Mr Dash Four
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